Funding: The Fannie Mae Foundation
Summary: This project has examined nativity-status differences in housing and neighborhood conditions in metropolitan America using data from the 2001 American Housing Survey. In the first paper, which is forthcoming in Housing Policy Debate, we found that when compared with native-born households, recently-arrived immigrant households are significantly more likely to be crowded, but either as likely or significantly less likely to live in poorer quality housing. Further analyses revealed, however, that race/ethnicity is a stronger predictor than immigrant status in predicting households' housing outcomes.